Description

Herbalism is an essential skill when identifying and gathering herbs in the wilderness. There are exceptional cases of the uninitiated in Herbalism successfully gathering herbs by luck. However, gathering herbs is a very delicate process and beginners in Herbalism can often ruin intact herbs. Rare herbs tend to grow only in the deepest regions of a dungeon and, therefore, you should regularly study the different kinds of herbs and practice a careful gathering skill.

Details

Passively increases the success rate of and decreases the time to gather herbs from Herb Patches and grants a chance for the patch to drop two herbs at once.

Somehow equipping a hand equipment (such as picking it up from the ground) will cause gathering to fail. The error message will say there are no herbs left regardless of herb count.

Herbs patches are found in various places. See here for the locations of herb patches.

Rank F Herbalism is required to spot Base Herb patches in the outdoor field. However, it is not required to gather from them.

These patches are not visible; the spot is labeled "Base Herb." Holding the Alt key hides the patch name.

Depending on the type of herb and the rank of the skill, Herbalism can add a 25% picking bonus, as well as a 50% identify bonus to the success rate. These bonuses stack, increasing the success rate by 75%.

The identify bonus also changes the patch's name from its color to the herb type. However, the color name can still be seen by holding Alt.

Obtaining the Skill

Complete a Healer's House Part-time Job for Manus bringing your total of successfully completed jobs to 10 or more. When they offer to teach the skill, agree. An owl will then deliver a quest involving gathering a single Base Herb for the respective NPC.

You can do the first nine (or more) part-time jobs at other Healer's Houses. Doing one Healer's House job for Manus after doing nine elsewhere suffices.

Despite what the quest briefings say, you can gather the herb from any Base Herb patch, not necessarily one from the mentioned dungeon. Gathering the herb from a Clover Gnu or Pig pet, or receiving one as a monster drop will also work. Having a Base Herb already in one's inventory, receiving it from another player, or looting it from the ground will not count.

Humans

Gather Base Herb

How to Get Quest

Complete Healer's House Part-Time Job for 10th or more time with Manus.

Briefing

This job is to look for the herbs we talked about before. Please dig up the base herb. You may find some if you go to Rabbie Dungeon. I suppose you don't know what the base herb is, but there there won't be a problem if you look for the green herb. Look out for just one thing, herbs have to be gathered carefully with bare hands. You may have some difficulties because you don't know about Herbalism but good luck! Huhu - Manus -